{"id":1914,"date":"2011-04-24T00:04:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T23:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1914"},"modified":"2013-11-09T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T16:13:23","slug":"a-rare-sighting-plus-more-chicks-and-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-rare-sighting-plus-more-chicks-and-a-video\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rare Sighting plus more chicks (and a video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The pond is proving ever more fascinating. As well as the recent arrival of the goslings, there are yet more young water fowl emerging. Just as the first clutch of ducklings begin to transform into young ducks, so a new brood has appeared.
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The proudest family on the pond remain the greylag geese. If anyone approaches too closely they hiss out a warning, none more so than this elegant white goose which seems to have adopted the role of guardian to the family. It's a domesticated variant of the greylag (which themselves are feral domesticated geese). Genuinely wild greylags are restricted to Scotland.
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Just a couple of shots of the moorhen chicks, once again snatched between overhanging branches. I've yet to see the chicks more than a few feet away from the bank (and they seem to spend most of the time underneath the overhang, completely out of sight).
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I promised a video in the title, but before that I want to record a relatively rare local sighting of a red kite. It flew over to the north of the pond. This is a 100% crop (it was little more than a dot in the distance, but distinctive for all that).
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Camera note: all photos and video taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,989],"tags":[1176,340,679,714,433],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-of-prey","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-duckling","tag-gosling","tag-greylag","tag-moorhen-chick","tag-red-kite","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t